You know sf has conquered the world when a net pundit announces that ‘Barack Obama is the Democratic Party’s Kwisatz Haderach.’

David Langford, Ansible 248, referring to a quote from Snarky Bastards.
In the same edition, Langford comments, vis a vis the recent death of Dungeons and Dragons co-creator Gary Gygax, ‘I liked the on-line suggestion that fans should club together to build him a vast tomb full of the deadliest imaginable traps.’

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The women looked pretty, except when you got near them

Jonathan Harker on Transylvanian locals, Dracula, Bram Stoker.

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Kids, you tried your best and you failed miserably, and the lesson is: never try.

Homer comforting Bart and Lisa when they fail to become Mr Burns’s heir, The Simpsons.

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Reaper … and friends

A friend of mine gave me the first season of Reaper recently (in purely digital form). Here’s one of my favourite lines:
Escaped Soul: What are you, a demon?
Sam:  No, I’m just a guy sending you back to hell … just … as, as soon as my friends show up.

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Dalek poetry

Heard this on a Mock the Week episode repeated a little while ago. Frankie Boyle on the subject of unlikely lines to hear in an episode of Dr Who:

 WEL-COME TO MY DA-LEK PO-E-TRY RE-CIT-AL! THIS ONE IS CALLED ‘DAF-FO-DILS’!

EX-TER-MIN-ATE DAF-FO-DILS!

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I, De Gaulle, possessor of one of the largest and finest noses in human history, welcome you to glorious France.

De Gaulle’s greeting to you on discovering France in the game Civilization IV.

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Not only do I not know the answer, I don’t even know what the question is.

‘My World’, Metallica

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I have found, you can find, happiness in slavery

‘Happiness in Slavery’, Nine Inch Nails.

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Death and dementia

Just read this in the latest Ansible:
Boris Johnson proposed the most plausible explanation to date of the ‘mystery’ surrounding Princess Diana’s death: ‘I will reveal how the Duke of Edinburgh secretly trained the Loch Ness Monster to swim up the Seine until it reached the Pont d’Alma and then I will explain how Philip then [...]

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Feel no pain, but my life ain’t easy - I know I’m my best friend

‘Escape’, Metallica.

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